Remarks:
This song was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and is here performed in 1971 by the John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir.
In 1972 the song went to #4 in Britain – the same year the US bombed Vietnam on Christmas.
The song never made the top ten in the US.
In 1980 the song went to #2 in Britain – the same year Lennon was shot dead in the US just 17 days before Christmas.
In 2017 I play this song in honour of Mosul, Iraq, which is publicly celebrating Christmas for the first time in four years. Under ISIS jihadist rule celebrating Christmas was dangerous.
Merry Christmas to all my commenters and lurkers!!
See also:
- songs, the 1970s
- Christmas
- jihad
- Vietnam War
- MLK’s Riverside Speech
- Bowling for Columbine – mentions the Christmas bombing
- The oneness of mankind
- Kumbaya anti-racism
Lyrics:
Happy Xmas, Kyoko
Happy Xmas, Julian
So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas (war is over)
For weak and for strong (if you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (war is over)
The world is so wrong (now)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
For black and for white (if you want it)
For yellow and red ones (war is over)
Let’s stop all the fight (now)
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas (war is over)
And what have we done (if you want it)
Another year over (war is over)
A new one just begun (now)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
We hope you have fun (if you want it)
The near and the dear one (war is over)
The old and the young (now)
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
Happy Xmas
Source: A-Z Lyrics.
Merry belated Thanksgivoween; belated Solstice blessings, and Happy Hannukkwanzaamas to you and yours.
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Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Joyeux Noel, Winter Solstice and Festivus and Merry Christmas 🤶🏾🎅🏿☃️🎄⛄️❄️🎁
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Merry Christmas and thank you, Abagond and all the people who comment, you are all very much appreciated.
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merry happy, sir!
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Reblogged this on League of Bloggers For a Better World.
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Merry Christmas Abagond!
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Merry Christmas to you and your family, and to everyone else!
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In the first Gulf War the US air force destroyed one of the oldest churches of Christianity which was located at Mosul. There was no nend for that.
USIS
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@Abagond: Merry Christmas and thanks for all the knowledge you drop.🕊🕊🕊🕊
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“Merry Christmas to all my commenters and lurkers!!” – Abagond – (Happy Xmas War is over, Dec. 24th, 2017)
“The cults of Isis, Mithras and Jesus used Koine Greek to reach the masses. – Abagond – (Attic Greek), the immediate previous post, Dec. 23rd, 2017
“State cult: The cult was pushed by the Old States government, but even at its height the images of Linken were never as common among the common people as those of Yesu or Maliya.” –Abagond, Temple of Linken, Dec. 18th, 2017
Abagond, three of your previous four posts appears to be a little more than contradictory. In other words, a LIE! So, … do you believe in Yeshua, Ha Mashiach (the Messiah) as a truly divine character that walked the earth or what? At this point, you appear to be not only waffling back and forth, but straddling the intersection between the secular and the holy.
Personally, I don’t give a damn one way or the other. However, I’m just trying to get a sense of who you truly are, absent the confusion. First, you refer to Jesus as the leader of a cult and then in your current you’re wishing everyone a “Happy Xmas.” (smh)
Cult – a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (such as a film or book) criticizing how the media promotes the cult of celebrity -; especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : the object of such devotion c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
Christmas or Xmas – a Christian feast on December 25 or among some Eastern Orthodox Christians on January 7 that commemorates the birth of Christ and is usually observed as a legal holiday. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
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Happy Holidays, everybody! 🎉 Gotta hope 2018 will be a much better year. ☮
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@Solitaire: Season Greetings 🕊❄️⛄️☃️🎅🏿🎄
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Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas !!!!
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@michaeljonbarker: Seasons Greetings 🎅🏿❄️⛄️☃️🎄
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@Afrofem: Merry Christmas ❄️🎄⛄️🎅🏿🤶🏾🕊
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@ Mary Burrell
Merry Christmas to you.
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Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year !!!
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@ Mary Burrell
Thank you!
🌲❄🌲❄🌲❄🌲
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one my favorite christmas songs
and as far as this blog post ,this blog, and the world in general
I guess this is why some of us need and perpetuate the lie that is christmas – many people lack insight honesty imagination?
and so need to believe a god that created everything and is all powerful ,had himself as a son ,so you stupid enough to believe this will be forgiven for the sin of being created by him and his fake sacrifice.
And after beating raping and slaughtering most of the world into submission
whites and their slaves will celebrate once a year their imagined god and their imagined victory.
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“one my favorite christmas songs” – Mbeti
“I guess this is why some of us need and perpetuate the lie that is Christmas.” – Mbeti
“many people lack insight honesty imagination?” – Mbeti
“believe a god that created everything and is all powerful ,had himself as a son ,so you stupid enough to believe this will be forgiven for the sin of being created by him and his fake sacrifice.” – Mbeti
WHAT? By the way, incoherency is not a virtue and it’s debatable whether or not it is shear ignorance or someone who is the embodiment of being an imbecilic!
Lawdy, Lawdy, have mercy! It is evident that some Kniggroes are completely destroyed for want of knowledge. And, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8 (KJV)
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
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Merry Belated Christmas, Happy Almost New Year, and Happy Every Other Holiday to all.
I also like the Celine Dion version of this song. They’re both nice in their own way.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tekN9NtGXOc)
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Mbeti, I understood you perfectly well. I had meant to write this before I took a short holiday break .
Too many of us rely on tradition, i.e. someone’s else beliefs and ideas without examining or questioning it .
Christianity is the biggest hoax ,the alleged holocaust of the Jews next.
Africans will never be free no matter their efforts against the originators of racism, if our minds are infected by this nonsense .
I used to be atheist agnostic since childhood until recently, when I learnt and understood how European Jews and Christians have erased our perceptions of GOD to justify their pillage and murder of the original environmentalists of the world. Dr Cress Welsing writes about this in the Isis Papers.
Christianity has absolutely nothing to with GOD.
The Jews have messed up the idea of GOD for humanity, especially Africans, to justify their beloved practices of slavery and genocide..
The son of GOD , a Jew? The sheer preposterousness of it.
And Black adherents who still do not know who their oppressors are , still believe in this nonsense?
What chances do we have for freedom when we are still infected by Christianity which keeps us enthralled to the White Jew?
Genocide ,war, slavery ,colonialism,apartheid, environmental destruction are the practices emanating from the originators of Christianity. If only Blacks would learn who the brought the Curse of Ham into the universal canon of hatred against Blacks.
Christianity ,communism, racism, zionism -all in the same category.
Mbeti , you might not agree with me at all .
But I am in concord with the whole thrust of your writing esp. that we are NOT insightful.
Very clear perception not a muddied or traditional mind filled with ideas of domination and control, is needed to understand GOD .
Rather the cold comfort of the truth of one’s dispossession of culture and land than the stupid commercial brouhaha about the manufactured mytholgy of a messiah and the Second Coming .
If Jesus was parthogenically brought into this world and then two millennia later decided to do a “beam me up Scotty ,” chances are greater he would have all limbs broken,his organs harvested by Israelis if he had a small IQ to resurrect himself in the world’s premier genocidal apartheid state. Now that Jerusalem is the capital of the state of people who manufactured two world wars and a whole lot of fat lies to settle there, shouldn’t JC make an appearance? If he was not a fan of the moneylenders on the temples then , imagine the apoplectic fit he would have with the Wall Street vultures, the Federal Reserve Bank , the IRS, World Bank. What do you think the American banksters would do to him? Guantanamo Bay or Fema camps?
I must add :if Christians are indeed God agents, he /she has a lot to answer for ,esp the Evanglical Zionists – a disgusting and embarrassing lot if you ask me .
My first post is too long already if this one is approved .
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Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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Blakksage, that was a weak side swipe from an ankle biting White supremacist watchdog.
Pray tell ,oh paragon of sagacity and GOD’s special agent, do you usually go below the belt to your Black brothers and sisters , if you see us as such , or do you reserve ” turn the other cheek” for the White masters?
Why attack our intelligence, without offering some of your own pearls of wisdom?
If I could just ask that you refrain from quoting or bible punching, please. That indicates a lazy mind dependent on second hand information . Be original and think for your self.
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@Katherine Johnson aka, PFThought?
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To Blakksage, I do not know who or what PF Thought is .
Are you in favour of war ? I am not .
Please illuminate the folly of my writing .
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